State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) produced 66.00 million tonnes of coal in November 2023, up 8.7% from a year earlier and 8% from the preceding month, the company said in a statement.

The company produced 60.70 million tonnes of coal in November of the preceding year and 61.10 million tonnes in October this year, data showed. Coal India produced over 80% of India's coal production.

The company's coal production totaled 460 million tonnes in the first eight months of the ongoing fiscal ending in March 2024, rising 11.5% from 413 million tonnes over the same period of FY2022-23.

CIL sold 63.00 million tonnes of coal in November, rising 6.6% from 59.10 million tonnes a year ago and 2.3% from October's 61.60 million tonnes. The total coal sales during the first eight months of FY2023-24 were up 9.1% year on year to 485 million tonnes, data showed.

The company supplied 399 million tonnes of coal to the power sector during April-November, rising 4.7% from 381 million tonnes a year ago. As of the end of November, mine-pit coal stocks of the CIL stood at 45 million tonnes, up 58% from last year's 28.5 million tonnes.

(Writing by Riley Liang  Editing by Emma Yang)
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